Apparatus for enabling samples to be taken from bales.



A. E. GUMM-INS.

APPARATUS FOR ENABLING SAMPLES TO BE TAKEN FROM BALES.

APPLICATION FILED IEB.27, 1914.

Patented Aug. 4, 1914.

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APPARATUS FOR ENABLING SAMPLES TO BE TAKEN mom BALES. APPLIOATION FILED PEB.27, 1914.

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ARTHUR ELPHINSTONE CUMMINS, OF HAMPSTEAD, ENGLAND, ASSIGNOR 0F ONE- HALF TO ROBERT BRIDGE, 0F MANCHESTER, ENGLAND.

APPARATUS FOR ENABLING SAMPLES TO BE TAKEN FROM BALES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented An 4, 1914i.

Application filed February 27, 1914. Serial No. 821,623.,

STONE GUMMINS, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at 12 Belsize avenue, Hampstead, in the county of Middlesex, England, have invented new and useful. Improvements in Samples to be Takenfrom Bales, of which the following is a specification.

In bales of cotton, particularly what are known as end pressed bales, a difficulty exists in drawing or obtaining merchant samples from, the bales without having to burst the hoops holding the bales, and breaking the bales up for repressing, before they may be shipped or sent by rail.

By means of the machine forming the subject of this invention a perfect merchant sample may be taken from a cotton bale,

without the necessity of bursting the hoops,

or breaking up the bale, or re-pressing 1t, and the same bales may be sampled several times if desired, being afterward to the eye as perfect as originallybefore sampling, only of course lighter by the weight of the samples taken away. For this purpose means are provided for nipping the two sides of the bale which are not hooped,; at near one end of the bale, the other grooves in which are spaced convolutions of the hoops.

The cotton above the nip is the bale, in the same way as turning over a leaf of a book, this piece then remains the merchant sample, perfectly flat, and with-, out distortion, a vital point in all mor chants cotton samples. A second lashing plate is nowclaid on the top of the bale and the hoops are twisted on again by hand, then the nip is loosed and the spring of the cotton will tighten up the hoops, and the balelooks the same as it did. before sampling, and is in perfect condition for shipment, or sending by rail.

Figure 1 is a plan, Fig. 2 aside elevation, and Fig. 3 an end elevation: of a machine constructed according to this invention.

Apparatus for Enabling nipped by or released from the edges 6 a is a arriage mounted on wheels 7) and supporting a lashing plate 0 on which the bale cl is placed.

a is a vertical :frame rigidly fixed to the carnage and f is a frame pivoted to it.

c and f are cross bars fixed to the f 'ames at any desired height by bolts.

6 are serrated edges projecting from the cross bars.

g is a screw operated by a hand wheel 7' and engaging with a nut f pivoted to the frame f so that by turning the hand wheel the frame is moved toward or away from the frame 0 thus causing the bale to be h is a lashing plate which is placed on the top of the halo (Z when it is desired to replace the hoops (Z'.

\Vhat I claim is 2- 1. The combimltion of nippcrs for gripping a halo on two opposite sides near one end, means for supporting the nippers a short distance from this end of the bale, means for moving the nippcrs toward each other into engagement with the bale a short distance from the adjacent end thereof, and an abutment for the other end of the halo adapted to prevent its expansion lengthwise when it is unhooped.

2. The combination of a platform adapted to support a bale, a vertical frame fixed to the platform, a frame pivoted to the platform, cross bars fixed to the frames, and means for forcing the pivoted frame toward the fixed frame.

The combinationof a platformadapted to support a bale, a vertical frame fixed to the platform, a frame pivoted to the platform, cross bars fixed to the frames, a screw pivoted to the fixed frame, and a nut pivoted to the pivoted frame and engaging with the screw.

ARTHUR ELPHINS'IONE CUMMINS.

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